The number tattoo is the predominant, perhaps even the singular signifier of the Shoah. This one small part of the story of persecution, humiliation and dehumanization \u2013 no more than a stage in the Nazi process of genocide – has assumed the status of the very emblem of the event.<\/p>\n
This perhaps because its makes permanently visible how prisoners were stripped of their names, their identities, their past lives \u2013 how human beings were turned into bureaucratic ciphers, H\u00e4ftlinge. Survivors who have chosen to keep the number “until [they] die” do so to bear witness to their own victimization and on behalf of those who have not survived to testify…<\/p>\n
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